iPhone 15 Pro Battery Drain Issue

Same here sadly. Upgrade from an iPhone 12 many to get more battery time. But my 1w old iPhone 15 pro has less battery life the my 2y old iPhone 12.sucks to have a new phone that need charging 3x per day

i have been running 17.1 at time of writing and will upgrade to 17.2 beta tonight hoping for improvement

Hello!

I've been closely following the discussions on this topic in the community pages for weeks. I have similar experiences with battery life, just like most people here. My two-year-old iPhone 13 Pro had significantly better battery life with 87% battery health.

I'm using the new iPhone 15 Pro with:

- eSim exclusively

- Apple Watch Series 9

- Background app refresh off for 95% of all apps

- Screen always on turned off, and so on.

Last week, I reinstalled the device from a backup via Mac (deleted everything in the backup except settings and Apple's own apps). There was no change in battery performance, however it took me a whole day to restore the phone.

Yesterday, I boarded a plane with the battery at 85%, with battery save mode and airplane mode on. After 12 hours, when I got off the plane, I had lost nearly 10 percentage points of battery capacity. The maximum screen time during this flight was 10-15 minutes. I didn't listen to music or anything else in the background.

What could be draining the battery so much with airplane mode and battery save mode on when the phone is inside the seat pocket for 12 hours (as shown in the yellow area)?

We've decided to cancel the order for my girlfriend's iPhone 15 Pro based on my disappointing experiences with the 15 Pro. We think for now she is better off with her 13 Pro.

I feel like I've been thrown back into year 2009 in terms of battery life.

Btw, I have an older pic from 27th of October. In this pic you can see how, on 24th, the phone suddenly started using much more power during each day. You can see that up to 23rd, the usage was much lower. During the whole period from 7th of Oct to 23rd, I had nice, acceptable battery usage. I did not change my habits, don't remember anything significant about installing some apps.

Meanwhile, the 15Pro has been reset to default and all data cleared, including the eSIM.

I created a brand new Apple ID account for it and installed nothing. I have let it idle on my desk only to sporadically check the battery. I wanted to see how it works in these conditions before returning it for warranty.

My conclusion: the phone still draws more power in idle with fresh account, no data to to sync with the cloud, no apps to refresh. But not as much as with my normal account and apps+data. What do you think?

I added an eSIM to it so I should not see any more battery usage from "No mobile coverage". I mean seriously, this list of apps using battery seems more and more just a poster from Apple, they don't show what's really happening and running on the phone, while using battery. This information is as useless as possible.

In the end, playing with the network connection of the 15 Pro, I have concluded that the battery drain is somehow connected with the GSM/Carrier connection. If I set the phone in AIRPLANE mode, but leave WiFi ON & Bluetooth ON, the drain goes away. In the picture, there are 4 zones:

A: Overnight with all stuff ON, airplane OFF

B: Airplane mode ON, other stuff untouched (other stuff turns OFF automatically when AirPlane is activated).

C: Again, all features ON

D: Airplane mode ON, WiFi ON (forced and checked by using internet), Bluetooth ON, Location ON, Background App Refresh ON.

@fxg44: now I've read better your post, so no OS update, the problem just disappeared for you. Same thing happened to me back on 7th of October, but the problem reappeared on the 24th of October, so the good times only lasted about 2 weeks for me. Disappeared for no reason, reappeared for no reason... I have the screenshot only from when it reappeared (on the right side, it should be obvious):

Same.

i charged mine to 100% at 9AM and at 2:30 it had 30% then 2% at 5;30?

my iPhone 13 Pro Max with 87% battery health lasted longer?

what can we do about it

FindMy is not the issue. You can fully disable it and still see the same drain.

Poor battery life and phone is always excessively hot?! Are there many people experiencing this? Apple needs to recall the phone I reckon. I want my iPhone 13 Pro I traded in.

I’ve had the phone for 3 weeks now. Poor battery life and so hot that charging is always on hold.

Okay this is the exact issue I’m having, phone gets super hot with any type of actual usage like web browsing and instagram. Battery is terrible compared to me 14 Pro

Apple does not read anything that is written here this is a user to user forum

In my opinion, the breakthrough here is the ios 17 in general . it's not possible for brand new phones with such a powerful battery to use up so much power.

Mine is from 26th of September. Do you think it’s still indexing too?

I bought my iphone 15 pro a couple of days ago! I had the 13 pro max before and it had the best battery I ever had! So the first day I was so freaking disappointed! But today surprisingly it did soooo well!!! I turned off the always on display completely and I think it really really helped! 7hrs easily as you can see and I’m on 27%! Fingers crossed it will stay like that!